How to Make The Double Latte - How to grind coffee beans for a double latte

CLANCY ROSE: Alright, so next we are going to talk about grinding the coffee and the grinders that you are going to use to prepare your espresso. So here we have a home espresso grinder. And basically, you have your hopper here where the coffee drops down into where it is actually ground. It's spit out into the dosing chamber here. On the right side of the dosing chamber over here, you have a lever that you pull to drop the coffee out of the dosing chamber. Then you have the rest here where you can rest the porter filter when you are dosing coffee into the basket. One of the most important factors in brewing espresso is the grind--the grind coarseness. On home espresso grinder like this, the way that it suggested is as it is marked here on the grinder, counterclockwise is finer and clockwise is to grind the coffee coarser. Basically, all you are doing is when you are grinding the coffee finer, you are creating more resistance for the water when it--while it is passing through the espresso while it is extracting the espresso and therefore the shot is going to take longer to brew, it is going to pull slower. If the coffee is ground more coarse then there is less resistance in the coffee, the water flows through faster, makes the shots going to pull faster. So, if you do not have a grinder like this, if you have one with the smaller home blade grinders, then you are basically going to put your coffee in the grinder and push the button to start grinding the coffee. And in those grinders, the only way to control the coarseness of the grind is by the length of time that you grind the coffee. For that, I would say that you are probably going to want to grind it for over 20 seconds. You are basically going to want to grind the coffee considerably finer than you would for a normal cup of coffee.